# Avatar Offloading to S3

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-offloading-to-s3/46406>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [24.Июнь.2016 15:44:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-offloading-to-s3/46406 "2016-06-24T15:44:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [28.Июнь.2016 00:47:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/avatar-offloading-to-s3/46406/6 "2016-06-28T00:47:13Z")

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> [@jongnam](#):
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> If the NGINX server is the first tier storage of avatar, there is still a risk of data loss which happened to my application in a week back.

If you have S3 setup, all original are on S3. We simply have the app act as a proxy (resizing service) for the case of avatars.

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